Narratives of three graduate and five undergraduate black women reentering education were analyzed using black feminist thought. They faced issues involving power relations based on race, gender, and class that are usually ignored in studies of reentry students. They used strategies of silence, negotiation, and resistance. (SK)

Examines the educational narratives of eight reentry black women in higher education to determine what common experiences shaped their academic lives. Results include the indication that participants entered higher education to better their lives and possibly the lives of their children, regardless of past school failures and lack of family…